Quoting: LoudTechieMy review.
+ Totally implementable.
+ not a giant big tech boon.
+ simple law
- easy to circumvent.
- I don't trust them to not turn this in something problematic.
- also applies to IOT and servers.

This will mostly result in the automation of these cookie banner like age gates.

Prepare for the logrolling to begin. I doubt this bill will stay simple for long.

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Quoting: EWGIt needs to be owned by a not-for-profit or non-profit collective or co-operative.
...
Stop relying on closed source software.
Stop relying on centralized platforms.
Stop relying on big corporations for anything.

I hate to break it to you, but this isn't happening with a major streaming service such as Twitch anytime soon. Twitch already has one of the largest companies in the world subsidizing it. Amazon allows it to use AWS at a massively discounted rate and provides additional direct funding, and Twitch still can't turn a consistent profit. Even if they did take 60% of subscription revenue (which is an incorrect figure, the base split is 50/50), I doubt that needle would move much.

I understand we are on a Linux gaming forum and most everyone here is already somewhat an advocate for open solutions. An additional subset of this community, including your take, is those who take that a step further and claim everything needs to be an open solution.

Say Twitch implodes tomorrow and we have some sort of not-for-profit organization/platform that is palatable enough for the largest streamers in the game to switch to. First, you need to convince them not to go to YouTube, Kick, Facebook Gaming, or another platform where their fans are already present. You then need to make the transition seamless: they should have as painless of an experience as possible moving everything they've already set up on Twitch in order to dissuade them from seeking other solutions.

And finally, you actually need to support the streaming itself: large streamers consistently hit 10k+ concurrent viewers... assume a 6000kbps 1080p stream to each person, you'd need 60gbps egress minimum to support just that one stream, assuming we don't create some magical P2P minimum latency protocol in the meantime that every single user and their ISP is OK with. Then sum that all the way down to even the smallest streamers, sending data to/from the server and just a few people. Where are you going to find this kind of performance, readily available, and at a reasonable rate? Unless you have a massive datacenter budget, the cloud is the first solution that comes to mind. That solution violates all three of your final closing points.

I'm not going to even mention payment processing, legal representation, contracts, sponsorships, advertising... it's all too much. Yes, we do have massive, open projects working at scale. Wikipedia, Internet Archive to name a couple. Streaming infrastructure is categorically different from hosting static content.

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Quoting: CaldathrasBeing that I am not a fan of MMOs (or any online games, really), it would seem to me that the most important aspect of an online game would be replayability. Wouldn't an endgame scenario interfere with that?

Once you've finished the endgame, what is there left to do?

A good endgame has no end. Consider a game like Path of Exile: over a decade of endgame expansions, consistent large playerbase every update, emphasizes player interactions but allows you to do everything on your own at the same time if you'd like. It has perfected the infinite grind.

To be fair, Arc Raiders is a baby in comparison to PoE, and in a different genre, but can learn from its success: if players already enjoy the core gameplay loop, Embark can't just pump out new content, but also has to to give players different ways to interact with existing content to keep stuff fresh even years down the line... assuming the game is still popular by then.

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Quoting: mr-victoryIs this really a problem though? If you could "beat" the game would you still want to play it after beating it? I'm saying this as someone with 160h on Embark's other game which is pvp and naturally doesn't have an end game, just new rewards with every season (3.5 months)

For me, yes. Last I played was up until they added the bird event on Buried City… got all lvl 3 workbenches, tons of blueprints, and the quests that the Speranza NPCs were giving me were starting to become very repetitive and way behind my characters power level (many epic gun blueprints, almost all good grenades, and I get “kill a Leaper” 60h in). I wish there was a more structured quest line so I have something to grind towards. This is coming from the perspective of a mainly friendly solo player, by the way. Multiplayer with friends is still fun but ruins my “trust factor” :)

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Even if you don't care about all the 1400+ games in the bundle... buying it just for the fantastic game Baba is You is still a 33% discount 😃

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I have used this platform since 2017 when you couldn’t even right click in the UI. I’ve basically seen this thing grow up from an infant stage.

I now feel like a parent whose child just said they hate them.

Maybe this is a good thing, and it will help keep me off of social media.

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Given that only two of the plethora of DLCs that Paradox have released for EUIV have at least mostly positive reviews on Steam, I'm not getting excited just yet

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Quoting: dxmnIt’s a little disappointing to me that the method they used to implement this wasn’t a project like Legendary, but you have to download the proprietary launcher, run it through their custom patched Wine, etc. I’m not complaining as long as it works.

So, how does this work ?
When you try to launch the game from Lutris, does it then launch the proprietary launcher and the launches the game ?

It doesn't even work properly in practice from me, to be honest. You download games as you would on Windows, download the launcher from Epic and run it through Wine (launching games from the Epic launcher doesn't even work) but Lutris won't know if the game is installed until the launcher closes completely (with exit code 0), not just pressing the X button.

The run command in Lutris post-install calls the proprietary launcher to launch said game once it's shown as installed in Lutris. It's kind of a messy chain. I change the run command to the base .exe almost every time because it almost never works without changing it.

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It’s a little disappointing to me that the method they used to implement this wasn’t a project like Legendary, but you have to download the proprietary launcher, run it through their custom patched Wine, etc. I’m not complaining as long as it works.

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Wine TKG [External Link] (for us Arch users stuck on 6.16) is available in the Chaotic AUR if you don't feel like compiling by hand or don't want it to get out of date. You can follow the steps here [External Link] to set it up and learn more about it. Some distros like Garuda have the Chaotic AUR already set up for you. This will replace your current wine-staging install, so make sure to back anything up if you need to.

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